2025 Preview
Bel a cappella marks its 30th anniversary with three distinctive programs, spanning sacred and secular music, and featuring works from Hildegard von Bingen to contemporary Australian composers including Anne Cawrse, Sally Greenaway and our own Clive Lane.
O Sing! on 29 March takes up the theme of singing itself, in a diversity of music from Bach’s Singet dem Herrn to Luke Byrne’s Rainforest, via Romantic composers such as Brahms and Fanny Hensel.
O Mistress Mine on 6 September offers a lively program of Shakespeare settings by Vaughan Williams and Rebecca Clarke, among others, that take us over hill and over dale, from fairies and fantasy to the very real challenges of wooing fair maidens. It includes an outing into the more jazzy side of choral music with songs by George Shearing and John Rutter.
O Adonai on 6 December ends our year on a more contemplative note, as Concert 3 interweaves Arvo Pärt’s full set of “O” Antiphons with individual “O”settings by living composers, as well as works by Palestrina, Grieg, Bruckner and more.
Much of this repertoire will be accompanying the choir on our tour to Switzerland in May, adding international resonance to our anniversary celebrations.
We invite you to join us in Sydney for a truly varied and memorable 2025 in choral music.
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“The singers of Sydney-based choir Bel a cappella are sterling representatives of the great tradition of music making in this country and their season opener demonstrated outstanding ambition and commitment to composers old and new, international and home-grown.”